"Liberal Media"

[Point_n_click]

Just got an email from a friend asking for help disproving the liberal media label. Specifically here's what he is asking:

"Trying to prove a point on a newsgroup. Can anyone point me to a source (in print or on line) to back up my assertation that while reporters and journalists are mostly liberal, editorial and management staff are mostly conservative.

Thanks for the help"

I know this has to have been addressed before. If you know where the links are and/or have more info please direct me to it.

Thanks!

[SharonAnn]

1. Don't know but it's like saying that since most GM workers are union,

that GM supports the labor union point of view.

[catzies]

2. Welcome to DU. Here's the only link you need

www.google.com

My preliminary search on "myth of the liberal media" gave me several excellent hits just on the first page. You should have the same good fortune. :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Point them to the fact that

All major media outlets are run by giant conglomerates that stand to profit from a conservative regime in power. The media was at one point liberally biased, but Reagan took to destroying that by de-regulating the industry, allowing the big fish to eat up all the little fish and become hulking corporations.

[kaitykaity]

4. Here's a few.

Eric Alterman's book http://www.whatliberalmedia.com

Bartcop's http://www.bartcop.com/libmedia.htm

David Brock's new site http://mediamatters.org


If you want more, let me know.

[prolesunited]

8. A couple of other good ones

Lots of excellent info and links here:
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.htm

http://www.freedomofthepress.net/theliberalmedia.htm

http://www.fair.org/reports/journalist-survey.html

So, what's your opinion? Do you think that we have a liberal media? What do you think of media concentration in the hands of so few? Should the fairness doctrine be re-instated?

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Check mediamatters.org

There's lots of ammunition there. :)

[Point_n_click]

6. Any list of who the executives donated to?

I'd like a list of who the executives from the news aganecies donated to the campaigns of. That would go a long way to answering my friend's question and helping him win his arguement.

Thanks for the other links!

[jus_the_facts]

7. Fundies see *liberal media* as the decline in what's acceptable on TV.....

....and in the movies...RE: sex *especially homosexuals*...violence..that sort of thing...although the right gives the left plenty of rope to hang themselves with in this regard...just so they can have a platform to point their fingers and say..."see what the HEATHEN DEVIL WORSHIPERS are DOIN' to RUIN society!" It is more a *moralistic* lable than a political one.